BIO
Born in 1959 in Buenos Aires, Marcelo Grosman is one of the main artists working with the medium of photography in this city. He has held solo shows at The Mission Projects, Chicago, USA; Galeríe Municipale des Arts, Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia; La Casa de América, Madrid, Spain; Galería Foster Catena, Buenos Aires and Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires. Among the numerous group exhibitions which included his work are Desde la Caverna at Centro Cultural MOCA in 2008; La Ciudad y el Río at Proa Foundation in 2006, and the V Porto Alegre Biennial. His works are in the collections of Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA), Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires (MAMBA); Musée de Charleroi, Belgium and many important private collections in Latin America, USA and Europe.

ABOUT THE WORK
Grosman’s work is loaded with ideas about institutional practices and their effects on the body and on image. He started working with a traditional approach to photography in the eighties, developing a series of portraits of young soldiers and naval officers, when the subject of the military was still painfully present given Argentina’s then recent end of years of military dictatorship. Later in his career he went on to use the photographic medium in a different way, abandoning the first hand capture of images and employing found images instead. His Guilty series are large monochromatic prints that superimpose faces of convicted criminals. The most recent development in his work consists in images produced with lenticular technologies which condense several seconds of footage taken from educational films from mid XX Century, meant to teach about sexuality, personal hygiene, good posture or first aid. The images which are activated as the viewer walks by the work end up being eerily charged with eroticism or becoming pseudo-abstract.